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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=andrew70912]OP here. I truly appreciate all the responses. Honestly, I was a bit surprised by the overwhelming support for Pitt over Grinnell. Considering that Grinnell is a highly ranked SLAC with an acceptance rate around 11%, compared to Pitt, a rather large public university with an acceptance rate nearly 50%, I expected more people to favor Grinnell.  That said, DC has always been part of large public school systems, so it's not surprising to me that he's not comfortable with a smaller college environment, especially in the middle of nowhere. Ultimately, it's going to be his decision, and as parents, we have to respect that.[/quote]

No skin in this game but bear in mind that at about 15x the size Pitt is bound to have far more boosters on a site such as this. Anyway, you are of course wise to defer to your child. Good luck![/quote]

PP above is correct.  There is sampling bias here on DCUM and it's undoubtedly traceable to scale, geography, and brand awareness.  I'm both a Pitt advocate and the person that said a lot of SLACs lack national brand awareness. That's meant to be a realistic, not an offensive, observation.  Part of my professional background is market research, so I pay a lot of attention to what people know and don't know.  My work also involves working with a lot of non-US people who did grad study in the US at big research universities.  Their brand awareness is more like this:

https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2024

Pitt is 90th on this list FWIW.

A final thought...acceptance rates should be used just for a candidate determining their chances of acceptance.  I don't believe students should go to the most selective school.  They should go where they think they will be most successful based on self-knowledge and the resources associated with their choice.[/quote]
How much does brand awareness matter to most industries? I went to a non-top 5 lac, but every recruiter has heard of my college and talked well of it. No one should be concerned that Susan has heard of their degree.[/quote]

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